Crash94_Dec_1991 by Marco Martinelli

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LEMMINGS Suss out the Suicidal symptoms of the cutest critters around. Check out the exclusive review on PAGE 14!

10 HAPPENINGS CRASH (piobably the besl Speccy mag in Ihe whale world) ts back with all me gen on how we survived Ihe onslaught ot the evil Liquidalorus, how four Sinclair I nod lo buy us (can you blame them?) and much more besides!

12 WIN A VIDEO RECORDER It s Chrimble lime so wo ve gol this eitra-special prize up lor grabs — courtesy ot mega-brill ultra-generous Psygnosis.

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16 PREVIEWS More on what's whal and er. well., wfial isn't on the new games front with our tab preview splasii!

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Lloyd Mangram s waltzed oil on a world cruise lor a tew months (complete with a massive supply ol paper bags) so your new Ed, Lucy (computer eipert extraordinaire) has taken over as chief Anne Robinson!

31 FABULOUS FREEBEE CRASH CALENDER First pan ol Ihis whizzo calendar to brighten your wall and mailt out your days — CRASH style!

34 POSTER II s the luverley Lemmings — but watch the litlle critters don I try to leap of! your wall!

39 HI-FIRE Your evil editor gleelully punishes all you high scorers in the most horrible way (and we re talking horrible) |ust In case you're telling porkie pies (which we know you are)!

42 ADVENTURE TRAIL Venture bravely down the dastardly depths of adventure alley!

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45 TOP 100 - FINAL PART Your choice ol the besl ever games on Speccy continues with this the ultimate battle lor the best!

50 DJ NICK0S PLAYING TIPS Nautical Nick guides you through Ihe rough and tumble ol even the toughest Speccy games!

54 REVIEWS Let the team with the most guide you through the Chrimbo game minefield lor the best in home entertainment.

66 BACKPAGE Your sneak look on what s coming up in next month's rip-roaring issue.

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i Lucy started at was J shy lass. It took her two weeks to force hersell to take off her I raincoat and get down to some serious games play { A . NcAehe'sl 'let her hair down . you |usfCan t get her away lTom"tftjBomputerJ Our beloved E d | | intelligent and Ipts of other nice] adiectivcs t r i s e ! Oh. she's | I reps on her, L_»ymat) Mark Caswell Well, what can I Ed that won't lose (Maybe changing^I m B s t Nick ) 1" Roberts would be the couple of months, I ve knoiwn Lucy, she's been very kintTto me. i used to have a very bad stutter, but thanks to her patent 'wire 'em to the National Grid' therapy, I'm totally cured. Life in CRASH Towers hBS Improved a lot since Lucy arrived. Her wit, charm and threats to hit everyone In sight has pulled the reviewing team together. Democracy is a word lacking In the Ed's dictionary; she rules with an iron fist that occasionally collides with our heads if we shirk. But it's a pleasure to work with such an understanding slave driver... er, I mean editor. W w r a n Lap worth # Production Editor My esteemed colleagues have had to walk the awkward line between grovelling comments and jokey 'I don't really meant it' insults.

What better Christmas prezzie could you ask for than your all-time favourite Speccy mag making a grand comeback so you can catch up on all the gen this festive season? (Anyone who can think of a better prezzie will be shot, shortly after being boiled in oillit) It just shows you can't keep a good thing down (madam) — no matter what those other magazines might say. Before I go on, I must thank our dear friends at Your Sinclair for their sincerity when they thought CRASH was gone tor good. I mean, weren't they just dripping with it? (well, they're always dripping with something —Nlcko). No, Nick, don't be nasty, after all, they paid us the biggest compliment in the world when Newsfiekj went down the swanny — they liked us so much they tried to... wait for it... Yes, they tried to buy ust More on that topic in Happenings. Still, It's nice to know who your friends are, I suppose, and nice Gazza Sumpter at Sinclair User really did sound upset about it alt, but perhaps that's because he remembers his days working on CRASH with fondness. Thanks Gazza. Well, all that remains to be said now is H A P P Y C H R I S T M A S A N D A STUPENDOUS HEW YEAR.

incredibly world famous Oliver Frey to do a double-sided poster calendar, jusl for you. It's tucked under the Lemmings poster in the centre, just pull both out carefully and keep the calendar, because next month you get the second half! Join up this month's with January's (construction Instructions included next munf) and hey presto! — a big actionbustin', gut-wrenching six months on either side!

See y'all next month, Ed Fortunately, as CRASH work isn't all I do at Europress, I don't find myself in such a compromising position (allhough my weekends are an entirely different matter...). However, I can happily and truthfully say Lucy Is one Of the livelier editors I've known and her |oily disposition compensates for the endless nagging she subjects us to (hand on heart, I whlnge at people for reviews, but I'm more subtle about

ft). What do ycu expect from a woman... (Aaarrgh! No, Stop!! Not the Industrial strength bolt clippers! Waaagghhh!!) Lucy Hickman • Editor What can I say? I'm touched — touched in the heed lor working with this lot! No, they're a good bunch, really. Mark's coming on really well with the electric shock treatment, and as for Nick 'I'm a

I Coming Com* to you live from CRASH Towers arm: Editor Lucy Big Ctoef Hickman Deputy Editor N<* K' Roberts Suit Writer Mark -Corky" Caswell Production Editor Warren

| Wozza' Wozz< Lapworth Art Designer* Mark KLM' Keodnck and Paul 'Chariie-Fa.<lie Chubb Systems Manager Ian 'B«g Cheese Chubb Screen Grabber Mfchael Chat Show' Parkinson Publisher Roger Sir' Kean Advertisement Manager Shetia I've got a company car" Jarws Advertisement Sate* Executive George R*k Asfley' Keenan and John Jay' Neetfiam Advertisement Production Jo Putter1 Laws Production Jackie Hairy' Moms Reprographics Rob "Wash W Go' M Aamp Managing Director Jonathan Boss Man Rignall Circulation Manager Davd T Wren. Produced and Designed by Europress Impact, using Apple Macintosh II computers, running Word, Quark XPress and Adobe Illustrator — all of which just occasionally works when It's supposed to. Printing BPCC Business Magazines (Carlisle) Ltd Distribution COMAG. Tavistock Road. West Drayton, Middlesex. Competition Rules.- The edMor s decision ® final in al matters relating to adjudication, and while we otter prizes in good faith, believing them to be available, it something untoward happens (like a game being odered as a prize being scrapped) we reserve the nght to substitute prizes of comparable value. W e i do our best to despatch prizes as soon as possible after the dosing date. Winners' names will appear in a later issue of CRASH. No correspondence can be entered mtO regarding the competitors (unless we've written to you stating you've won a prize and it doesn 1 turn up In which case write to us at the address below). No person who has any relationship, no matter how remote, to anyone who works lor either EUROPRESS IMPACT ot any of the companies ottering ptzes, may enter our competitions. No material maybe reproduced m part or in whole without the consent of the copyrightholders We cannot undertake to return anything sent into CRASH — rndudng written and photographic material, hardware or software—unless it is accompaned by a suitably stamped, addressed envelope. Unsolicited written or photographic material is welcome, and it used m the magazine is paid at our current rates. Copy published In CRASH wd be edited as seen fit and payment will be calculated by the printed word rate. So It really doesnl took like irs worth Winning anything or writing us a word, does it. but it we dont gat these boring smaSpnnt txtz in, our bits get cnmped. And just to prove the point. the views expressed In CRASH are not neoessanty those of the publishers — so woTs there left to say?

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Europrass Impact Ltd, CRASH. Ludlow, Shropshire, SY81JW. Tel: 0584 675851. Fax 0564 876044. This month'* c o v e n Lemmings. Cover design by Oliver Frey. Powertipe inlay by Mark Kendrlck.

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OBJECTS • Boulder: The rocks will tail if unsupported and can be pushed if there are no objects in front of It. When selected, place on the game screen by moving the pointer and pressing the fire button. • Diamond: In every cave a certain number of diamonds need to be collected to win. and to leave the cave. • Enchanted Wall: Looks like any

Stones? Gravel? Pebbles? Nope, boulders, and lots of 'em, as you become a • strange, insect*iike creature called Rocklord, pilfering diamonds and dodging butterflies, amoeba and the aforementioned large, rotund rocks! • The object of Boulder Dash is to search through caves and collect the indicated number of diamonds within the time limit. The way to solve the caves is usually very simple, but not at first apparent. Read ihe description of the game elements in the Construction Kit section to understand more about the different aspects of the game. Once the game section has finishing loading, you'll be asked to select your control options, then the type of machine you're using (4&128K). You can move your character, Rockford, around the cave using the joystick or keys. If you And you can't complete the cave you're on, pressing Break will make Rocklord commit suicide! You can then start

the cave again. You are awarded an extra life every 500 points.

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CONSTRUCTION KIT By using this part of the program, you can create your own Boulder Dash caves and intermissions. You can also make a complete game by using up to 64 screens of caves and intermissions. These designs can be used with the Boulder Dash IV game. Starting: When editing for the first time, you'll be presented with a menu that gives the choice of editing a current cave or intermission or creating a new one. Use the joysttck keys to move the pointer on the menu, and click on the desired option. Along the top or side of the screen you will see a number of icons.

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diamonds when they explode. • Amoeba: This grows through dirt, and unless confined (when it wilt turn into diamonds) will eventually turn into boulders. • Slime: Looks like amoeba, but allows rocks and diamonds to pass through. • Hidden Exit Door: This door looks just tike a Titanium wait, and is obviously difficult to find. m - 3 • Exit Door: This will m m* ^mm R i n be revealed as soon as the required ^ A. number of diamonds u j - j , 'C. ' T have been collected. • Entrance: This is where Rockford starts. other wail, except when hit by an ob|ed it will 'mill' for a certain time. COMMANDS During this time, it will turn boulders • Line Mode: This draws a row ol the into diamonds and vice versa. current icon selected. Click for the start position, and click again for the • Wall: A regular wall used to build end position. spaces and paths, it can't be • Random: Selecting the dice Icon crossed, but can be destroyed by will place 20 of the selected objects explosions. on the game screen randomly. • Titanium Wall: This wall is • Eraser: (press E) This selects an indestructible. empty space, which can be used to • Growing Wall: If there are no delete misplaced objects. obstacles next to it, this wall will grow into any tree space. • C: (press C) A colour menu will be displayed. Move the joystick until • Extra Rockford; These won't move, you get the desired colour, then but you must protect them from press fire to select another colour being destroyed by boulders etc. register. • Dirt: Used as a filler. Stops all objects except Rockford! • T: (press T) This tests the screen you're editing. Use the Joystick to • Fireflies: They explode on contact, control Rockford. You have one life killing Rockford. They are destroyed only. by dropping boulders on them, or by contact with amoeba. • M: (press M) This selects the main menu described below. • Butterflies: They behave like • N: (press N) This selects a new fireflies, except they produce

screen, and clears the cave Intermission you're working on. • P: (press P) This removes the selection panel, enabling you to work on a larger area. • CLOCK: (press V) This allows the timings and counters to be altered. Use the joystick/keys to alter the values. • F: (accessed from keyboard only) Full screen; allows you to view the whole playing area.

MAIN MENU Using the main menu, you can set a sequence using load and save. Simply load each cave In turn and save them onto one tape after the other, making a note of how many caves/intermlssions are in your sequence. They can be re-loaded at the start of a Boulder Dash IV game.

CAVES AND SEQUENCES • A note about caves and intermissions: A standard Boulder Dash game' consists of a total of 16 caves and four intermissions. The caves are made up of four screens of maze and this is where the players must collect the required diamonds. Every four caves the player is rewarded with a 'bonus game', the intermission. This is just a single screen, where he/she can score extra points or lives. Obviously, using this kit, one can alter the number of caves and intermissions to any number or sequence.

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The wild 'n' wacky (or should that be whacky?) monochrome spies from • Mad magazine are back for more manic head-to-head trap-setting, swordbrandishing fun! • This is the second game In the everpopular battle between the black and white spies. Like Its predecessor, It's a one or two player ribtickling affair. Here the eternal enemies are stranded Robinson Crusoestyle on a desert island, where a top

secret missile codenamed the XJ4 (and a quarter) has crash-landed. It's scattered in three pieces and our lovable rogues are after it, with the usual hilarious results.

LET BATTLE COMMENCE Once the game's loaded you're presented with a list of options. These are number of players, control options (keys, Sinclair, Kempston and Cursor joysticks), difficulty level, computer player intelligence and whether the rescue submarine is hidden till the end of the game. As for movement, Imagine the screen Is a three-dimensional area where you can move left, right and in or out of the screen. Moving left and right is simple enough, but when gaps appear In the background or foreground, your character can move up or down the screen respectively (It makes sense, honest). These gaps are passageways which lead other parts of the island, essential if you're to find and assemble the missile before your opponent does. Pressing fire within range of an object or mound of sand (three small triangles) will pick/dig It up. If you're unlucky (or clumsy), you'll run Into a booby trap left by your adversary, but you can be |ust as cruel with the help of your Trapulator.

KEYS PLAYER 1 PLAYER 2 Q Move left N A Move right M Z Move back or up P X Move forward down L C Select activate booby trap B Pick up, drop object Start game Break Return to option screen

BANG, YOU'RE DEAD The Trapulator allows you to store and use various items and tools needed to complete the mission. Along the side of the screen are a number ol icons, next to them an Indicator shows how many of a certain object you possess. There's only one gun on the

Playable demo I• I I I I I I I I l| I If you can't wait to read the Lemmings review on page 14, whap this month's Powertape into your cassette deck and save those Lemmings!

• What's a Lemming, you may ask (a bit louder, please). Well, he's a green-haired little chap with the very disturbing habit of leaping off tall buildings. Not the safest of pastimes, but then the player is expected to save the suicidal little creatures from the myriad dangers that face them as they yomp across the many landscapes and Into their homes.

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• O Moves cursor up • A Moves cursor down • 0 Moves cursor left • P Moves cursor right • M Selects Lemming to perlorm function • Z Scrolls left along panel • X Scrolls right along panel • S Turns off music (In 128K mode) • L Scrolls screen left • Enter Scrolls screen right • Caps Symbol Shift Nukes the current level (quit) • Space Pause game • 1-10 Selects the function the chosen Lemming performs

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The game consists of 60 levels split Into four categories. Fun, Tricky, Taxing and Mayhem. The aim of the game is to guide the Lemmings across a dangerous patch of ground and make sure they get home safely. The start of the level informs you how many must be saved to move onto the next (even tougher) level. The Lemmings drop from a trapdoor set at the top of the screen, and merrily set about doing their thing (leaping off tall buildings, drowning etc) against a vicious time limit. If they hit a solid object they bounce off and retrace their steps, if they hit water acid, they

drown. The suicidal creatures can be controlled by clicking on one of the ten icons ranged across the bottom of the playing screen. On the early levels, all of them are available, so you can bash, climb, dig and float to your heart's content. But as time goes on, the old brain box needs to be used as less and less functions are available — and the already short time limit drops even lower (Panic City! I).

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Here's a rundown of the functions each Lemming can perform... • CLIMB: The selected Lemming becomes a climber. Chris Bonnington lookallkes, ahoy! • FLOAT: This provides the Lemming with an umbrella so they can float safely to the ground • EXPLODE: Using this option will trigger a five-second timer.

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When time's up, the offending Lemming will explode and splatter horrible squidgey bits all over the landscape! • BLOCK: An effective crowd control option, selecting it makes a little chap put his arms up and stop the critters either side ol him • BUILO: Handy bridges are built that carry our Lemming pals over numerous hazards • BASH: Psycho City!! This gives a Lemming a hammer to smash down obstacles • MINE: Similar to the Bash' option, a miner Lemming armed with a pick-axe will dig a tunnel diagonally downwards • DIG: This makes one Lemming dig downwards with his bare hands • PAWS MODE: This pawses the game (groan) • NUKE: It's mega-apocalypse time, folks! If you've ballixed a level up, this kills all the Lemmings at once!

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Lots ot gungy goings on in this kiddies' • gameshow, and now you can play It in your own home — but without the mess! (Audible sighs ot relief from carpels nationwide.) • Anyone who's been up early enough on a Saturday morning (that counts out the whole CRASH team) will know the Ins and outs of tills amazing gameshow that appears as part of Going Uve! Introduced by mege-star Peter Simon, the game Involves two teams battling It out In a trivia quiz. if you can't answer the question you're asked you can "Dare' It to the other team, who can earn bonus points. If they're a bit dim and can't answer it they can 'Double Dare' it back again. The poor team that's left with the duff question can either answer It for lots of points or take a Physical Challenge'.

island, so make sure you find it first. But beware, some of the bullets are duds and the gun Isn't always fully loaded. Apart from man-made traps there are several natural hazards: the volcano (which acts as a time limit), quicksand, water (the spies can't swim) and some very voracious sharks. (Or maybe the last two together to add insult to Injury!)

COMBAT Hand-to-hand combat is Inevitable on an island as small this one, but ot course these two rivals are past masters In devious tactics. Holding down the fire button will make your character whip out a dirty great sword. Moving left or right while holding down fire will make your spy buckle his swash. But be warned, once within duelling range the Trapulator won't work. Combat ends when one of the combatants moves

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Wizard programming team Bizarre Developments of Sheffield are behind this daring extravaganza. These nutty blighters first tried to package a bucket of BBC gunge with the game so when you failed a challenge a friend could empty the contents onto you from a great height. When testing this method their poor Speccy became s bit sticky and had to be put in the wash with their socks!' They decided to go tor a different kind of challenge Instead. The challenges in the Double Dare computer game are of a mental nature with lots of puzzles and brain ticklers to be tackled.

a small frame around the screen until you find the shape you want, then press fire and left or right to rotate it Inside the frame.

TASTY, TASTY, VERY... The finished game will have many challenges and questions to be answered. If you win the quiz you'll go on to an assault course to win prizes! As a little taster, you'll be shown selected screens If you manage to complete the demo! 'tt is inadvisable to put your computer Into a washing machine and switch it on. So don't do It!

CONTROLS You can select keyboard or |oystlck at the start of the demo. The keys are CMJp, A-Down, O-Left, P-Right. SPACE-Select. So what amazing challenge have we got in store for you? You'll be presented with a screen full of small shapes to sort into vertical rows before the time runs out. You move

off screen or expires.

BOOBY TRAPS There are four types of nasty traps available: coconut bombs, Napalm, rope snares and a shovel lor digging pits. To place a trap, simply press the Are button twice and select the trap required, then press fire again to hold the trap. Position your spy and hold down fire while pushing forward on the joystick. You'll hear a whooshing sound; this indicates the placement of the trap. Now watch where you tread! Snares are set by selecting the rope and pushing your spy up against a tree. The spy will climb the tree and tie the rope to the top. You may then position the noose at the base of the tree. To make a coconut bomb you (obviously) need a coconut and some petrol (a fruity version of a Molotov cocktail). The amount ot fuel you possess Is shown at the bottom of your Trapulator, It needed, more fuel can be obtained from a wrecked plane somewhere on the Island. Once you've dug a deep pit you can leave It as it is, or be realty horrid and lay some sharpened stakes in it to

perforate your opponent's botty. But beware: the spade tends to break after eight pit diggings.

MAP The island you're standing on Isn't that big, but it's advisable to use the inbuilt map (unless both players are on the screen simultaneously, In which case it won't work). Shown on the map are yourself (as a flashing square) and white areas denoting the whereabouts of missile parts. On levels five and six there are two Islands to search. The problem is there's only one safe place to cross and your foe will no doubt be waiting for you!

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three pieces, but you can only hold one piece at a time. Also you have to connect the pieces in order (ie, the head, middle then tail section). Once two or more pieces have been assembled, they count as one whole piece.

THAT'S ALL, FOLKS! The game ends when either your spy dies or he finds the missile and leaves the island In the handy-dandy submarine wailing offshore. It will surface when you approach it, though If you get lost you'll find It at either the north-west or north-east beach. When you spot It you can wade out and sail off into the sunset...

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Yes folks, If you've written a game you reckon should be on the front cover of CRASH, what are you waiting for? Plonk your game onto either a cassette or disk, along with a letter explaining the gameplay, and sling It in the postbox. If your game passes the CRASH reviewer test, you may see It on the covertape. The address is: EUROPRESS IMPACT LTD. CRASH POWERTAPE DEPT. LUDLOW, SHROPSHIRE SY8 1JW. •

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Nicko, Corky and I bounded into CRASH Towers, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed on September 17,1991, ready for a new day's work (and if you believe that, you'll believe anything!). Ex-Ed Richard Eddy was off sick that day (blinkin' girl's blouse) so he was saved the horrors to come! He couldn't cope with us after the happening so he's defected to Code Masters — J but that's another story (see elsewhere in Happenings). As we merrily got stuck into CRASH (oh, what a » wonderful mag!), we heard a ^ ^ strange noise. Newsfield staff dashed to the windows and gawped out. What a sight did I H we behold! ^ ^ Fluttering through the sky was the strangest V spacecraft anyone had ever ft i seen. Would you believe it? A spaceship that looked an awful lot like a redundancy p 1 cheque! Open-mouthed, we " stared in wonder (Corky got a bit upset cos a bee went in his gob) as the great ship alighted on CRASH Towers — my god! Even the moat couldn't stop it.

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attached to them. Lugs clamped for safety, we didn't hear a word Liquidators said. Eventually he got totally racked off and bundled us into the redundancy cheque lookalike and whisked us off to the planet GONE8UST. The horrors we endured are too dreadful to talk about. These wicked creatures tried to convince us that classic mags such as CRASH and ZZAP! were finished. Even Newsfield itself was blasted Into oblivion. But we were strong. Nothing could convince us that CRASH was gone forever.

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the quagmire of despair and put CRASH back where it belonged — on the shelves and in your homes and hearts!!

FRIENDLY FUTURE Round of applause, everybody, for our big-hearted rivals, Future

Publishing (Your Sinclair). They were so impressed with CRASH and our Commodore sister mag, ZZAP! 64, they tried to buy them when Newsfield went bust. After finally getting Future publisher, Jane Richardson, on the blower, she categorically denied the intention was to kill off your fave mags (CRASH and ZZAP1. that is), 'No, this was not a deliberate attempt to squash the opposition. We like competition. CRASH and ZZAP are very strong titles and we certainly didn't want them to die,' said she pleasantly betwen gritted teeth. She went on: We had several options open to us, had we got the titles. We probably would have incorporated them into our existing magazines.' So there you have it, viewers, straight from the horse's mouth. Just one question springs to mind: incorporating CRASH would mean relegating it to a tiny comer ofYour Sinclair's cover. Now if that isn't killing CRASH off. what the hell is?

stamps on your head and rips you limb from limb with Its fearsome gnashers, don't take it personally. you're a lettuce I Okay, so this codswallop. The truth is (and it's stranger than fiction) Code Masters have snapped up Richard as their new super-go-fast PR peep (wow. how impressive!). Commenting on the move, he said: 'I've always been impressed with Code Masters' operation and its incredibly successful track record proves It's a great company to be part of. The people at CM, from the ^ ^ ^ ^

CODE MASTERS, AHOY! Big sobs everybody, CRASH s lord and master, Richard lushcake' Eddy (known as Dick Ed when he first arrived at CRASH) has left us (and

programmers to the production and sales staff, form a highly creative team and the line-up of product has never been better.' (Well, he would. Wotta creep!) And his message to you lot: "Stay lush, lushcakes!!" Profound Richie-babes, profound. We thought about chucking him in the Hi-Fire Horror House as punishment for leaving us but then we found a folder full of old photos instead. Ha ha. a plan. Let's show Richard as you've never seen him before.... Anyway, Richard, take care of yourself, my son, we're going to miss you here at CRASH Towers.

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Reach lor your parachutes peeps cos we're off for a cliff-hanging trip with the luverly Lemmings — courtesy of Psygnosis. Cute they may be intelligent they ain't. You sure wouldn't find one of these critters on Mastermind. And so messy! Splattering their bodies all over the place indeed, no consideration. Haven't they ever heard of taking an overdose? NICK ROBERTS dons his green wig and jumps off CRASH Towers (about time too — Ed)

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IT MAKES ME SICK! The idea behind this game Is so sickenlngly s c k M i b b > i b 0'simple It had • Follow the Yellow Brick Road tra la la - No, follow it programmers all over not leap off it! the world kicking themselves for not thinking of it first. all the colour has been taken out of The sprites used are tiny so need them the whole games in little attention to detail, the monochrome. This doesn't spoil programmer's skill is used by things too much though, except thinking up devilishly difficult levels that when the Lemmings crowd for the unsuspecting games player. together all you can see Is a block of colour! The more characters on The graphics are almost exactly screen the slower the game gets the same as the Amiga or Atari STs. The only difference seems to be that too, but that's nothing to moan • WHOOPEE I Look at that Lemming fly. Oh, sorry, look at him fall! Bag's of ouch! Oh well, it takes all sorts.

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LOADSA LEVELS You're not going to complete Lemmings in a hurry. There are four skill levels: Fun, Tricky, Taxing and Mayhem and each ol these has 15 landscapes to attempt to complete. That makes (whirr, whirr) 60 levels of Lemming mayhem In all! 128K

or Leg Bombs, to name |ust a tew moves, and pin your opponent to the floortorthe court of three—just Hke the reel thing, There doesnt appear to be many rules to this one or two player beat- emup. I don't think a referee would dare to get in theringwith these monsters, which might explain why there isn't one in sight as the macho men fling each other about

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your pleas completely and punches your lights out; (b) He roars with laughter and punches your lights out; (c) He knocks the gun out of your hand, rips it to pieces with his teeth and punches your lights out; (d) He chases you, trips over letting you escape, and gets so angry he punches the street light out (next day he finds your address, comes round your house and kills you). So remember, next time you Insult a WWF wrestler, make damn sure you've got one of those Star Trek gadgets with you so Scotty can beam you up pretty bloomln' quickly: these guys are real mean. Right, armed with this information, you're now getting into the ring to fight them, one at a time, In Ocean's stonkin' new Speccy game, called (surprisingly) WWF Wrestlemanla.. (Stop blubbering, you big girl's blouse, Have you decided yet? the very worst they can do is kill X / Okay, here's the result ot you, slowly and agonisingly.) each tactic: (a) He ignores • The crwod wait with beted breath lor their s w e a t y heroes to appear.

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WrestleMania has spread like wildfire both here and abroad, with mean machines like Hulk Hogan, Andre the Giant and Brutus 'The Barber' Beefcake becoming household names as they grunt, roar and threaten to tear anything that moves into little pieces. Based on the Nintendo WWF game, WWF WrestleMania Challenge, the aim of the Speccy version Is the same — smash your opponent into the ground. You can choose to fight as Hulk Hogan, The Ultimate Warrior or be really patriotic and stick to p m v j>b-.':a Ir / > * ' the British Bulldog. You can even select which Insults they fling at each other! Each fighter has his own special beat- 'em-up tactic You must fend off • hM» • r u Atomic Elbows, Warrior Wallops, Headbutts, ChokehokJs, Double Axes • Did you call my pint a whore? Chuckles abound as the guys kill each other in WWR

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• Murray Mouse in h i t house, puling down h i t trousers... (Nick, w h a t are you on about? — Ed) planning to fly to the moon and claim pipes to visit the mouse houses. It as their own. Being made of 100% Murray can hold up to three objects green cheese (of course!), it's vital to at a time and will need to explore the economy of the mouse world. If every nook and cranny to solve some these nasty mice got their own way, of the puzzles as there are many they could rule all mousekind! Murray undiscovered ^ isn't going to stand for this so sets passageways, out to foil the plans of the Moufia and Fans of bring them to justice. arcade The huge flip-screen game is adventures will packed with attractive locations to simply love visit. You start off above ground, Murray Mouse dodging the joking mushrooms that in Mouse live up there. You can travel deep into Mania. Look the mouse kingdom below and use out for a the network ot sewer tunnels and review, coming

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where he breathes in then blows them over, Super Spit, where he spits out the pips from previously eaten fruit (yeuck!), Super Snare, which traps a mutant so Seymour can stamp on it, Super Sprint, which speeds the hero up, and SuperDuper Leap, so he can jump to the top of the screen with ease. Super Seymour is packed with the excellent cartoon animation we've come to expect from a Big Red product. The Seymour character Is instantly appealing to all age groups, and looks set to take over from Dizzy as the BIG Code Masters cartoon character. Look out for Super Seymour on a Spectrum near you — soon. our hero leaps and bounds > you collect atampa? Well t a k e this! Seymour around, collecting • D out the classic joke! toxic substances In trie; the correct order tor points and avoiding or destroying the mutants that zip about Ace programming team Big Red Software have given our toothy friend some special powers to help combat the nasties. These include a Super Blow,

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Aliens. Nasty basts, aren't they? I mean, have you ever tried discussing the meaning of life with an alien? No? Well dont bother — 'cos if he disagrees with you you're likely to get wasted. The aliens in Space Gun are a particularly nasty breed, as LUCY HICKMAN discovered. Anyone out there like cutsey platform games? * Y'know, the ones with sweet little characters scurrying around doin' Good Deeds and solving loadsa tough problems? You do? Well Space Gun is absolutely nothing like that. We're talking the ultimate in shoot*'envups, here. The plot's not particularly new. Run of the mill stuff about pillocks getting taken

hostage by evil beasties etc. But It's full colour and the aliens are M screen sprites as they try to take chunks out of you. In a one or two player game, you're a crack commando squad zooming round space trying to defeat the deadly aliens who've taken over the solar system. There are six levels, split into three or four sub-sections. The aim is to rescue the hostages who've been captured by the aliens. You'll find them wrapped up in strong cocoons which you must shoot away.

BIG, BAD AND UGLY You begin by running through corridors ot a space station, shooting anything that moves. Blast • He looks armless doesn't he? Bit of a big mouth though, eh?

the aliens with your high powered machine gun or they'll bite chunks out of you! There are lots of weapon boosters along the way, so look out for them. The aliens get bigger and badder as you speed through space stations or lunar landscapes. At the end of each level you'll have to fend off a particularly vicious creature, such as a hideous serpent which hatches out of an egg, Intent on

making you its first meal, and the final enemy, the Mother Alien, no mean feat 'cos she's very upset since you've wasted her precious babies. If you manage this you must bundle the rescued hostages into a space buggy, reach a waiting space shuttle safely and take off. Game, set and match to you, and 'Ya boo sucks' to the aliens. Oh yes, and you've saved the universe as well.

After four months' hard work, Damien has nearly completed the game and says he's now heartily sick of It. He claims he's found a way to totally maximize the Speccy's capabilities — and push it even further. Here's how he did it. Said Damien: 'When I'm programming I firstly work out the limitations of a machine and try and make It do what It can't do — do the impossible, really. Sometimes it works, sometimes It doesn't. This time it did. 'We've got full colour for the game and the aliens are extremely detailed, very fast and big — full screen size at times. I kept the backgrounds fairly simple so as not to lose out on the game plan.' But don't the massive sprites slow the action down? Apparently not: I cheated quite a bit while I was programming the game so it's even more efficient when there's a lot going on — the only time it does slow down Is when there's not a lot happening. 'I'm sick to death of the game now; it's all I've looked at every day for the last few months, but everybody else here reckons It's really good. It's fairly difficult, I suppose, even with the arcade version It would cost you two or three quid to get to the end.' And there you have it. An action-packed scrolling shoot-'em-up set to hit the streets any time now. I'm afraid it's t28K only, due to It's detail and complexity.

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Super Space Invaders will be landing all over the country from Domark, soon. Better phone home! • Space Invaders revisited. But didn't you get enough the first time around?

• T a k e s you back doesn't it... all those well spent 10ps down at Ludlow fair! Way, way back in the depths of time (well, around 1977, actually) a 47-year-old Japanese man came up with the ingenious idea of creating an electronic game where you shoot at aliens on a screen until they've all disappeared. Sounds exciting, doesn't it? (yawn). Well, for those days, it was absolutely amazing and it became a big success all over the world. And now, 14 years later. Domark are rereteasing the game. To bring things up to today's standards, they've designed some rather spiffing backgrounds tor the Invaders to crawl

around on and lots powerups, attack formations and special bonus stages. The original Space Invaders had wave after wave of aliens to be killed and the ultimate goal was only to get the highest score! Now you get gigantic mother ships at the end of each level and have only one weak spot to find. If you survive this there's Cattle Mutilation! This is a bizarre shoot-em-up bonus where you must save your herd from the alien invasion!

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CHRISTMAS CAPERS! S A M C o plan to take the Christmas market by storm with a brand new package to squeeze the best out ol the machine and give It a flashy new paint job! (Wow!) 0!' Sammy's getting a 512K memory and a disk drive as standard — and possibly a new black case with grey keys! A whole stack ot software goodies will be bundled with the package, Including an Exploration and Discovery disk to introduce the beginner to the wide world of SAM computing. This new Coup* will be a bargain at just £199.99.

POCKET MONEY PURCHASES Disks worth a butchers this month Include two from I m a g e s S A M S o f t w a r e . The first is a two game pack, Give A Dog A

Hexagon ia Revelation £9.99 Lots of atomic mayhem in this hair-tearing puzzle game, spread over 70 action packed levels! See the review In this issue for the full story.

Impatience could look like. Saa.'ls something you've just got to see: a trampollning sheep! The disks are available from IMAGES - SAM SOFTWARE, 16 Hayton View, Ludlow, Shropshire SYS 2NU, for £2 each! Make cheques payable to J Roberts and tape coins to a piece ol card.

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Bone and Roboblob. Check out the graphic quality of the screenshots on this page — wow! The second disk includes The Chamber of Horrors, Lemmings, Baa! and Viz. The honor demo is Xrated so It's not one lor the taint hearted. The digitized animation Is of a man with an exploding head and another having his arm chopped off! (Oh lovely! — Ed). The Viz demo features all your favourite cartoon characters, while Lemmings demonstrates what the SAM game

I Put on your heroic heed and help the young adventurer on his quest to save the princess (yet another girl's blouse—Ed) from the clutches of the evil Jaffar. Lots of lumping over targe gaps, falling i spikes and getting sliced in i by mega blades! That's if you're not careful where you're stepping.

Bring the Amiga's great graphics to your SAM with an Amiga IFF to SAM converter, the latest utility to come from I n t e g r a t e d Logic. Get access to an Amiga and you can draw with their superior art packages then simply convert them to load on SAM. The only problem with using this method Is the Amiga's screen is bigger so you'll have to select which part of the picture you want to convert. My only moan about the system Is the speed and layout of the software on the SAM side. A new disk loading system has been written and takes lorever to load up the convenor The IFF Convenor Is an essential purchase for any SAM graphic anist.

FREDSoft £9-99 I FREDSoft s first release includes two addictive puzzle games In one pack. In TWfexyou have to pair up the symbolsto dear each level and you even get mouse control! Viking, for two players, Is based on an ancient board game.

that can only be described as a thing'. who has to escape from a really weird land. You've no control over the way the landscape scrolls, but you have to guide Zippy away from the walls and death! On the way out you can eat grass, plums and avoid traps like spikes and water. There are 21 levels to play, some of which are totally new!

Batz'n Balls Revelation £9.99 . A mega tile game with the balls zipping across the screen, losing momentum the higher they get and forming an arch. Every level la packed with colourful MODE 4 graphics and the power up Icons that can be collected will have you losing your mind with such effects as extra bails, expanding bats and slow motion play!

The Sound Machine Revelation £14.99 I Any budding pop stars out there? Then The Sound Machine is just for you. You control SAM's voice box and can enter notes and songs using the simple menus, edit and Improve them using keyboard, joystick or mouse. Eat your heart out, Kylie!

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Revelation £9.99 , This classic Spectrum game of yesteryear has made It onto SAM—only this version Is even better! Skim through 60 levels ot upgraded and coloured graphics and boogie on down to the new toe tapping music!

Splat' Revelation £9.99 [Another classic Spectrum game, this time the Incentive hit, Splat. You're Zippy, a character

F-16 Combat Pilot RevelatlonDlgital Integration £1649 . In this corking flight sim, due out for Chrimbles, you can zoom round the landscapes with shaded 3D or wire frame graphics and attempt the daring missions waiting for you. Most of the graphics have been ported directly from the Atari ST so it's gotta be good.

If you have any stuff for the SAM Page, send it to: SAM Page, CRASH, Europress Impact, The Case Mill, Temeside, Ludlow, Shropshire SY8 1JW.

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Anite Schwarzenegger, California, USA. aka Daniel Bndgland, Cranbrook, Daniej you r® a complete plank. Go and hit yourself very hard with ,or E S S S - " ' ! "Shy (n° what, and get some merapy immediately (although I Imagine it s far too late for STat,

computer games from my life, the industry underwent a major change. Most of ihe small software houses dsappeared. while the bigger houses only seemed interested in arcade conversions. There were few original games and people paid more for

conversions - £9.99 used to be expensive. CRASH changed, too — no doubt due to the pressures of the market but the old quality wasn't quite there. Half the size, half the text had gone, and it was clear why. There was nothing to put in rt. In Issue 38. March '87, the then edtor wondered about the future for Spectrum computing, asking: Is innovation squashed out of the equation when corporations control the home computer

industry? Let's hope imagination isn't sucked into the resulting Black Hole.' I think it was. Thunder Jaws isn't much of an advance on Scuba Dive, is it? And that's about eight years old. The only other Smash in Issue 91, LED Storm, is two years old and looks like Spy Hunter. But CRASH is improving again. Issue 91 was better than the summer '89 issues. I'm intrigued to see how many of the readers' Top 50 games are golden oldies. That'll decide once and for all whether they do stiH make em like they used to. Computer games are no longer the most important things in my life (they were! they were'), but 111 never stop playing. When I've some money. I I buy the top of the range Speccy. or maybe even a SAM Coupe and ol' rubberkeys will retire to the wardrobe — permanently. Glyn Evans, Kidderminster, Worcs There are still some good, original games on the market — It's just a matter of

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(The game is called European Superteague). Leighton Morgan, Cardiff Bravo! Encore! Rap merchant extraordinaire! How nice to get an artistic groveller for a change. Since I'm a really, really, really nice gal (and anybody who disagrees is history), you get this month's software voucher — I trust you're suitably grateful!

finding them. I'm afraid in many ways I'd have to agree with your points. Let's face it, software houses are out to make money (who isn't?) to do this they use big names which draw attention away from the lesser-known games which are often ten times better. As for CRASH - It's the best (probably) and it's going to get even better. Id

oonstant playing I completed it I wanted the sequel — Doomdaik's Revenge — but no one had it. Months later. I came across a copy of CRASH in my newsagents. To my sheer delight. I read that Doomdark's Revenge would be on the Powertape in the next couple ol months (hurrah). I bought it immediately and would like to reward you in some way, but since I'm short of cash at the moment It enclose a piece of string which may come in handy. Lee Rawlings, Hull

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Dear Sir The commercial video game celebrates its 20th anniversary next year. The first one — Future Space — was designed and built by American Nolan Bushnell in June of 1972. He only sold 200 copies but by 1974 he had a winner with Pong. Nolan then created Atari and a string of hit games, but it was the Japanese who spaced the video revolution. In 1977 the Taito think tank unveiled Space Invaders and the world never looked back. The video game industry is still very strong. Originators such as Atari, Williams and Taito chum out winners and dozens of other companies release quality games which entertain millions in the thousands of arcades worldwide. The games have been around long enough to gain plenty of enthusiasts. Many, like myself, have grown up with the machines and have let them invade ther own spaces — ie, bought machines to play in our own homes. I'm now urging video game fans to form a dub, society or association lor anyone who's fanatical (or even mikfy interested) in coin-op videos.

The dub would inform members of game developments long before games appear ii arcades, gather as mm information on machines a5 possfcte I help people who are interested in buying and repairing games. It would also bring people with a like-minded interest together. Anyone interested in joining should write to: 109 Raidifte Road, Loughborough. Leicestershire LE11 ONR. and I'll send them all the relevant information. Steve Pagett, Loughborough, Leics What a good idea! Thumbs up to you, Steve — video games are now a huge market and it's about time they got some recognition. So, game freaks, here's your chance to get all the gen on your tave games etc or get together and knock each other's blocks off deciding which games are the best. Ed

BUBBLE TROUBLE I'm a well-wishing, mutant perv merchant from Jupiter. I relertothe letter sent in a previous issue by Zob—the one with a craving for turning into a piece ol paper and having sex with your hand. I find turning oneself into a bar of soap gives more sexual pleasure to both parties involved. One disadvantage with being a bar of soap is you dissolve into goo before long -

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COUPE CRAZY First, my +3 asked me to tell you this: I'm a Speccy. as bored as can be I've got nothing to play on you see I need more games £40 worth, I daim That would make my day, probably.

irreversible personality problems - I'm talking GOO-GOO GA-GA So change back in time unless you want to eat baby food lor the rest of your life - understand? CJ Perv, Twickenham. Middlesex Yes, I understand perfectly. Now, since you're a well-wisher, why don't you wish yourself well away from decent, self-respecting folk and go

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Should I trade in my +3 for a Coupe? Would CD games load into it? (I have the games pack.) Is there any way of getting my disk games on to it? Are the big companies going to make any SAM only games? I thought when I bought the CD games pack that some more CDs would come out' I haven't seen any so far. Are CodeMasters planning any more? It was an excellent idea — I only wish they'd lottowitup.

People are wrong to complain about the price of software. There doesn't seem to be any complaint about music CD prices — up to £20 — which cost pennies to produce. I'm disappointed, though, that disk games cost al least £5 more than tapes. Robin Haynes, Chorieywood, Herts Yes, why not, they're damn good machines (right, SAM Co, you owe me one). Yes, probably (but test H first). Yes, if you get a SAM Co Messenger you should be able to save your Speccy games to disk. A definite maybe. Probably not. id

WONDERS NEVER CEASE Heik) there! I'm a 128K Speccy owner and a very unhappy one al that! I've three worries to point out about the WONDERFUL WORLD OF SPECCY!' (how frail these words now sound)! 1. The quality of Speccy games doesn't reach that of the 16-bit world (due to graphics and sound), but programmers can improve on piayability and adtictiveness it they spend as much time on them as the 16-bitters. It seems when Amigas and Atari STs came out programmers thought the Spectrum was a bit crap, so they leamt 16-bit language. (They have no brains, do they!) There's No.l off my chest, now for No.2. 2. Mr Software Piracy is zipping around the country again (naughty little fellow, isn't he?), due to VAT (Very. Annoying, Tax!). II would help if VAT didn't affect software. Couldn't publishers put a protection system on some games to cut costs? NEXT! 3. These ere Spectrum magazines, one of you will have to go! I get CRASH and Your Sinclair. Sinclair User will have lo go! There's always millions of them left on the shelf' They increase the number of games to make people buy it, and it still doesn't work! I feel quite sorry for (hem. CRASH is simply the best, better than al the rest, and will lead Speccys into the Nineties. David Worsley, VIP (very important player)

programmers will be a little bit miffed to hear they have no brains.) I'm sure publishers would love to make themselves VAT exempt but it's not quite as simple as that VAT men are like fleas — they're a constant annoyance and they get everywhere. As to CRASH being the Numero Uno Speccy mag: Need I say more? id

SPECCY POWER Many moons ago, I owned a Commodore (spit!) Vic 20. and although I enjoyed using it my heart was always for a 128K+2A Speccy. In 1989,1 finally received one. What joyl I treasured it, cared for it and loved it deaity. But then I noticed the likes of the Amiga. ST. Sega. Megadrive, Nintendo and more. Had the Speccy been thrown out of the market to a life of mockery and begging? It appeared so. I had nightmares about it. Was this the end? Then one day I \ found a Top 20 all formats chart, and 11 of the entries were Speccy games' Next to this chart I saw a curious little mag called CRASH for Speccys only. 'Yippee!' I cned as I bought it. the Speccy was alive and kicking, with so many games being produced (or it of such a high quality. The Speccy is such a fabby 'mature' machine isn't it? It's cheap and totaly bull, and as tar as I'm concerned the 16brts can hang their microchips in shame, because the Speccy is here to stay. Wayne Sensible' Brown, nr Ulverston, Cumbria PS Did I sound too excited? I get like that when I'm writing about something ( believe in. Now just calm down, Wayne, we all know the Speccy's great but foaming at the mouth isn't going to help. (Incidentally, I hardly think sensible' is a very appropriate middle name.) No, the Speccy is not dead — masses ol letters a week confirm that. In Its own way, it can compete with the best of em. id

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When Lloydy went on his hols he left this endearing message for you: "Hello snivelling Hi-Score heroes. How many rotten portde-pie tellers do we have this month? Stacks, no doubt Weil, I'm going to put you through excruciating pain and agony just in case you're telling fibst In last month s issue I nude things as unpleasant and painful as possible and the little swine still kept smiling, l it wipe those grins off your faces yst If you have a so-called high scon send It now with a mug shot to: HALL OF HI-FIRE HORROR, CRASH. LUDLOW, SHROPSHIRE SYS 1JW. Write in now If you dare... Lucy will tell me If any more Hl-Scorers lie. You're warned!"

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1 DRAGONTORC Here's everything you will ever need on the CRASH version ofDragontorc from Jon Rose of Bog nor Regis. He's included a POKE that can either be multifaced or MERGEd Into the program, hints, tips and a solution!

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Hello again, Speccy pals, I'm back again with another souped-up, turbo tips section with no added colours or preservatives! The festive season is here again and we've bought loads of decorations for our flashy new office. The trouble is that T h e Management' won't let us use Sellotape on the shiny new walls so we have had to stick up the tinsel with Blu-Tack! It works fine on the small decorations but when Corky stuck a fairy above his desk he soon had her bum in his face. He didn't mind, of course. It's a bit of a shortened tips section this month; I've had to make way for the groovy Europress Impact promotion in the centre of the mag. But I don't mind — it gives me a good argument to have a bumper tips special in the future. Because of our enforced holiday (see Happenings), lots of you have stopped sending in letters for me to open. This has pleased Mr Postie, as he has to carry the sack with them all in, but not me. So come on, put pen to paper and send in any tips, cheats, POKEs or maps on any Speccy games past, present or future(!) to the address at the end of the tips.

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2 • the general tips {i) Gain extra % by finding all the exits in the Henges and collecting all the spells. (ii) Once you've collected the 'warrior gem', use it to kill goblins, skeletons and spiders. Don't risk your etves or 'missile spell' unless you have to. (iii) Don't try to finish the game in one sitting. You'll enjoy it more if you save it after about two areas cleared using these cut off points.

This is found in woH wood. Search for energy herb. Find skeleton and search It to find divining rod. Use rod In pools and leaves to find bane Jewel and crystal of antithought. Open slab with Halgor's seal. Go down hold and read message. Drop all but Halgor's seal. Go through door and kill spiders with Halgor's seal. Collect spells that they leave behind. Use return spell. Search tomb for door key. Taking half moon, stroll off to...

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Find a bow and anow. Give it to one of the elves to gain a sickle. Use the sickle to cut down the 'energy herb'. Lift one of the slabs to gain a jewel. Give it to an elf to get a message. Search a pool for the missile spell*. Lift the other slab to get another message. Drop Merlyn's seal in the henge, return to hole under slab and descend into...

Find message with starts Batswing...'. Find and take bat, herb and frog — the frog Is in a pool. Put these in a cauldron and collect wand. Use wand on slab in next room. Take gem and spell. Give gem to elf In return for the other half moon. Make a whole moon. Use wand on magic sword and take it. Use sword on sapling and make magic broom. Sweep leaves with broom to find a large stone and a message. Read message. Move slab In woods for light spell. Use whole moon on stone and take moon and sword into...

* Vaults Of Locris Kill skeletons before you start to explore. To gain letters X and T, search a skeleton and a pile of rubbish. To find I, move to the room with a stool and a fireball in it. Use servant on stool — it turns into a chest. Open all the other chests to gain two keys. Open chest near fireball and take half moon. Search chest for letter I. Search another chest for 'leyrod' spell. Get other spells from pools. Place X, I and T over letter E — a cube appears. Taking leyrod and half moon, touch cube and return to henge. Pick up Merlyn's seal. Using leyrod to find exit cubes, follow yellow route twice. You will now enter,,.

* Webwood Look for a stick and pick it up. Move stone with stick and take axe. Use Merlyn's seal on slab and go down hole into Merlyn's cave. Unlock chest with Merlyn's seal and read message. Drop message and half moon. Go to next room and take warrior gem and milk. Go down exit and chop stump with axe. Search for a log. Use milk to tempt out

* Sanctuary Use mantle against Demon's missiles. If you touch cursed scroll, use leyrod to reveal exit. Use sword on scroll to get a message.Take sunkey and green key from goblins. Use light spell in dark message. Use sword on spiders for more spells. Unlock chest, kill demon to get two messages. Also get locate spell from Demon. Search for two adjacent doors. Use locate inside room to find chest. Unlock chest and take cursed key. Read message. To find key to open locked doors search, dark room using light spell and wand to find key under a stone carving on a wall. Search tomb with servant to find wall spell. Use bane on wraith. Open locked door with key. Open chest Drop old key and take new door key from chest. Go through dark room and open locked door. Use full moon and sunkey to reveal cube. Taking sunkey and cursed key, touch cube and re-enter...

tip® • Vaults Of Locris Open locked door with sunkey. Search tomb with servant to find undo spell. Avoid fireballs and use bane on wraith. Use undo spell on cursed door, a moon symbol appears. Use undo to release crown and take it Use return and place crown on anvil and destroy it with crystal on antithought. Trip off to...

• Dreamdowns Use either warrior gem or elf to kill goblins. Search for squirrel and get him to search leaf piles for a stone and a torch. Light torch on fire and give bow to elf in return for a nut Give nut to squirrel and take key. Enter ruins and take snake symbol. Use snake symbol on slab and take demon spell. Exit ruins and use snake symbol on slab in woods. Taking snake symbol and a lit torch, do down hole. Go through door and use torch on snake symbol you find there. Kill snakes with snake symbol and use snake symbol to open doors. Open chest with snake symbol and take crown symbol. Search tomb with crown symbol and take crown and message. Use return and place crown on anvil. Now it is time to go to,..

• Trollstones Use warrior gem on imps. Search leaves with servant to find bane gem. Search stump for coin. Catch bird for message. Search stump for coin. Swim in pool to get to...

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Use missile on bats and torch on the snakes. Use axe on eggs. Take chest key and open chest with it. Take crown symbol and place it on cursed key. Take cursed key and open door with it Use demon on demon. Take crown and use bane on eyes. Use return and place crown on anvil. Next you descend into...

• Cursed Crypt Use mantle as protection. Find rabbit and put him down hole retrieving

key. Unlock chest with key and take ankh. Fetch rabbit and put him down hole again, taking spell. Take rabbit to carrots to find slab. Use ankh to move it Take ankh, cursed key and torch down hole. Use bane on wraiths. Place ankh against ankh on wall. Take ankh and repeat this again in another room — a crown symbol appears. Match this to crown on wall to make exit appear. Use cursed key on locked doors, keeping mantle on to protect from snakes. Open blue chests with blue keys. Take spell and key. Use key on room which leads to three wraiths. Use bane on them and key on other door. Search tombs with crown symbol. Take crown, use return and place crown on top of anvil. Put crystal on antithought on top of magic to get message. Take crystal of antithought to cursed crypt and touch hand with it Take hand to...

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This is full of all sorts of mean critters so be very careful where you go. The warrior gem may help to start with. Search leaves and pools for spells and gems. Give gems to elves In return for a torch, key and a missile spell. Use key on chest and take detect spell. Light torch on fire and incinerate snakes with it. Use key dropped by goblins to open another chest Take bow and door key. Give bow to elf. Open door with key and kill one of the goblins yourself. The elves then enter and finish the job for you. Open next door, taking elves with you. Open next door killing bat before it gets to the elves. Open left hand door. Use detect to reveal goblins guarding chests. Lead elves onto goblins. Take key and open both chests taking pentagram symbol and undo. Search for pentagram on wall and place your symbol against It Drop key and symbol. Use mantle and missile against demon. Search for a pool which builds up your energy. Find green key and drop it

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Put torch near it to kill snakes. Use undo on key and open chest Take key and open door with it. Lead elves onto goblins (or use missile). Now you meet Morag. Use slow or unseen here. Put hand on crown

above Morag's head. Take crown and wand and go left Use bane on wraiths. Place wand on fireball generator and take key. Use flashing key on door and kill snakes with torch. Use wand to find chest. Open

it with green key. Use wand on snakes and magic. Take mlndkey from chest. Take wand, pentagram symbol to exit cube and other pentagram symbol. Drop pentagram. Open next green door with mindkey. Use yellow key to open chest — watch for axes. Use wand on axes. Take pentagram symbol from ohest Place pentagram symbol on chest when missiles fly out. Use other pentagram symbol to reveal cube. Taking crown, enter cube going to,.,

• Cairndoom Open doors with mindkey. Use missile and warrior gem on various nasties. Search for giant stone. Use mindkey on stone to reveal Meriyn. Give crown to him and give yourself a pat on the back for completing the game!

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1251 LET S(A)=9: LET N(A)=9: LET M=M+10000: REM M IS THE MONEY! Now In line 65 where it says all that stuff about "you can only have 11' change the 11 to 15 (not the 11 in the speech marks!). No one, not anyone could beat you now. To resume the game, type CONTINUE or GOTO 800.

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they head for doggie heaven. Be Wamedll, watch the timer as you go 'cause speed is of the essence here.

• LEVEL 5 Now eight bodyguards {but only two on the screen at one time, you'll be pleased to hear) attack you. Each are defeated by eight punches (a combination of high and duck punches). Finally Mr Big arrives and he requires 14 high punches to defeat, but watch out for his massive arm that will throttle you if you step too close. As long as you keep your distance you shouldn't have too much trouble in despatching him. When he is unconscious, sit back and enjoy the fab end sequence.

Even though there will be no more Back To The Future games, Mlrrorsoft themselves have sent me these handy tips. Many thanks go to the ever helpful Alison Stroud (I love ya lots, All).

• GAME ONE - THE BUCK BOARD CHASE 1. Pick up all the luggage that Clara has dropped from the back of her runaway buck board; luggage equals points {and what do points make?). 2. On the vertical section, pick up the discarded gun: this allows you to fire three shots at a time.

• GAME TWO - THE SHOOTING GALLERY 1. You can shoot at stationary items as well as moving targets. 2. Shoot at the different-coloured ducks for a special bonus. 3. Don't shoot the granny as she will cost you 25,000 points.

This is a birova oldie as It first appeared back in Issue 33. Credit for these wonderful tips goes to Jon Hopwood and Steven Baker from Maidenhead.

• LEVEL 1 This level is set in a multi-storey car park which consists of four floors. Firstly you must walk to the right which requires that you dismount the bikers using a flying kick. Once you've kicked them off the bikes they'll proceed to attack you with fists and clubs. The rider takes five hits to destroy, whereas the others only take two hits. Use the club to break a few skulls. On floors 2 and 3, continually scroll from right to left without being attacked. Use this method when on floor 4; you're only required to defeat one biker and one man before answering the phone.

Being the most difficult level, many people will have been measured up for a straitjacket by now, but never fear 'cos help is here. The safest way to dispose of the dragons is to low-punch them (they have a very nasty habit of biting your head off otherwise). This is also the best way to dispatch the Captain Caveman-style human Inhabitants — kicking them usually results in a club over the bonce. Incidentally the club that Renegade can pick up doesn't have a use until Level Two, so you'll have to wait to crack a few heads open. Twelve enemies must be killed at the end and the halfway point.

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RENEGADE 3 THE SURVIVOR'S GUIDE issue 55 saw these stonking Renegade 3 tips appear in the hallowed halls of ZZAP!. Many thanks go to Andrew Roberts from St Helens for sending them in.

• LEVEL TWO — ANCIENT EGYPT Using the club from Level One will help you dispatch those 'dogs' a lot easier than with just your fists. If you lost a life or missed the club, don't despair 'cause you can either high-punch or flying-kick them. The large mummies are easily killed (if you can kill a mummy), but their smaller counterparts are a right pain in the botty. Although it is possible to punch them as they jump up, also beware of dripping water (and acid).

• LEVEL THREE - T H E CASTLE Most of the enemy troops here take 3 or 4 hits to kill. It is best to use a flying kick on the Knight and lowpunch the jesters. The dragons can be killed with three high punches. And if you come up against a seemingly impassable wall, kill 14 or so enemy soldiers and it will lower (it's a drawbridge dummy). The Knights on the hobby horses can't be killed, you have been warned.

• LEVEL 3 Now come a vicious pair of skinheads: a large one who needs five hits to deck, and a smaller but deadlier one who needs six punches. Always attack the right-hand man first; do this and you will have little trouble reaching the phone in time.

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Capcom/Compilation Brave Arthur is back to kick arse in this sequel to the Ghosts N' Goblins. Princess Hus has been kidnapped again (Flippin' princesses, they're such girls blouses — Ed). Demons, spooks, zombies etc are out to him, but our Arfur is ready to face the hordes of hell. BEST BIT: The addictive gameplay and the great graphics. WORST BIT; The disappearance ol some of the yellow creatures against yellow backgrounds.

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The Sales Curve/Full Price pirouetting rabbits and manic robots. Collect the keys that are scattered around to escape. The limited amount of air in each cavern, equals a hair-tearing game. BEST BIT: The addictive fun-filled action. WORST BIT: After seven years It's very dated.

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Mirror soft/ Market Stall The idea Is to slot the differently shaped (and coloured) blocks together to make horizontal lines. Once this happens the line disappears, but il you allow the blocks to build up it's Game Over. BEST BIT: The game may be frustrating, but it's fun. WORST BIT: Putting a block in the wrong place.

4QHER0QUEST 4 O Gremlin/ Full Price

Messrs Barbarian, Elf, Dwarf and Wizard stomp through dark and dank caverns to complete their missions. As in all good stories there's a nasty black-hearted villain — the computer-controlled Morcar. Hero Quest is initially contusing for general games players, bul it's fun nonetheless. BEST BIT: Not having to set up the plastic figures of the

When the the going gets tough the Special Weapon Interdiction Vehicles are sent in lo nuke the sons of dubious parentage. In a one or two player, four level game, a helicopter and a jeep work together to trash billions of dollars' worth of terrorist hardware. BEST BIT: The very detailed sprites and the action. WORST BIT: In one player mode the game is very tough.

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The Hit Squad/ Budget These off-road racing games are pretty popular, it seems Enduro Racer is no exception. The aim's lo stay in the seat of a last moving offroad bike as you tear across muddy tracks and leap over obstacles. There's a vicious time limit that adds a certain amount of angst to the proceedings. BEST BIT: The speed of the player's bike. WORST BIT: Crashing into an obstacle.

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In Shadow Ot The Beast you're a huge shambling beast who's out lor revenge. You were once human, but the evil Beast Lord experimented on your frail body and turned you Into a monstrosity. But it won't be easy to get near to old Beastie: plenty of his minions are out for your blood. But with tooth and claw you'll fight your way to his castle and regain your humanity. BEST BIT: The brilliantly-detailed beastly graphics. WORST BIT: Some ol the attacking meanles are camouflaged by the backgrounds.

43 COMMANDO

Encore/Budget

With a sub-machine gun and a handful of grenades our hero has to destroy two fortresses, swarming with enemy troops. There's no reasoning with these guys, It's a case of shoot first and ask questions later. A great game for closet psychos everywhere. BEST BIT: The tally-ho chaps' blasting action. WORST BIT: Not being able to put the joystick down (Oo-er, know the feeling — Ed).

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nrfci Alternative/ Budget Berk, Boney and Drutt are the longsuffering servants of Him Upstairs,' trying to cook up some very strange dishes. There's a problem, however: many of the ingredients have to be caught first. Also many of the weird and wonderful creatures from the trapdoor appear and make poor old Berk's life a complete misery. BEST BIT; The large and colourful graphics. WORST BIT: With a bit of practice, it's a bit of a doddle.

NORTH AND SOUTH

Infogrames/ Full Price

The Confederate or Union armies are at your command as you and a mate blast your way across the US of A,

LL'JC trying to knock each other's blocks off. The game contained some ot the best graphics we at Crash Towers have ever seen, and the final result was a highly enjoyable romp. BEST BIT: The superb graphics, the addictive gameplay and the atmospheric sound effects. WORST BIT: If you can think of one, we'd like to know about it.

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You're in the driving seat and launched at breakneck speeds round masses of tricky tracks. There are 20 cars In the race, one can be controlled by a friend. If alone, your opponents are all computercontrolled, and beware because along with the computer's demolition derby-style driving, there are on-road obstacles to be avoided. BEST BIT: The zippy sprites and the high addictivity factor. WORST BIT: The car isn't real.

LEADERBOARD Kixx/Budget

There are four courses on offer and a four player option; each course is viewed in a behind the player 3-D perspective. Each player has 14 clubs at their disposal, and choose your weapon depending on the distance between ball and hole. It's an oldie now but still worth considering. BEST BIT; The 3-D perspective. WORST BIT: Learning which club to use where.

SLIGHTLY MAGIC

O O Code Masters/ Budget

Slightly is a wizard's apprentice who must save the princess from the dragon Sunburnt. Slightly needs your help to find and use the various spells dotted around Dizzy style. BEST BIT: The rainbow-hued sprites and backdrops. WORST BIT: The resulting colour clash.

BOMBJACK

Encore/Budget

Collect 23 bombs scattered around the single screen levels to move onto the next. The horrid creatures are out in force, but to Jack's aid come a variety of icons that bestow vital help. But don't let the horrors touch you, because their embrace is fatal. BEST BIT: The high payability factor. WORST BIT: The game Is a bit repetitive and easy to complete.

Ofi! THE GREAT ESCAPE

O W T h e Hit Squad/ Budget

You play a WWII POW who must escape Irom a German prison. The game's presented in s 3-D isometric style and the morale of your character is the main concern if it drops too low he loses the will to escape. BEST BfT: The ace presentation and graphics. WORST BIT: Again, write and tell us if you find one.

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• The Hit Squad/ Budget Officer Bob must fill an arrest quota within a tight schedule. Litterbugs, Honkers, Hitchers and Dopers etc have to be arrested or the Chief will kick your butt out of the force. Bob in his car is viewed from above, while the status panel tells how many more slimeballs have to be arrested. Basically a racing game, but the comedy element makes il a star. BEST BfT: Even though the sprites are monochrome, they're nicely detailed. WORST BIT: Accidentally driving the wrong way up a one-way street.

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Code Masters/ Budget Escaping from a plane taking him to a zoo. CJ must make his way back home to Africa. The game's a simultaneous two player affair where CJ and a pal travel through different countries (levels) to get home. Colourful and hectic, it's a cute game with a high addictivity factor. BEST BfT: The addictive garneptay. WORST BIT: The annoying tune. 0

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V V FINAL FIGHT Rainbow Arts/ Full Price

The Machine's a nasty being who's terrorising the planet Landorin. Tunry is back In his power suit and in the middle of the action. As before a range of power-up weapons are available. A fast and frantic blaster that contains some of the best graphics seen for a long lime. BEST BIT: The action and the big, bold sprites. WORST BIT: There are only 24 hours In the day to play the game.

O O BACK TO SKOOL

v f a Microsphere/ Market Stall

After nabbing his school report in Skool Daze, our hero, Eric, has to

return the report he forged over the holiday .There's so much mischief that Eric can get up to. BEST BIT: Being a complete pain in the neck and the snog-up with Tracy at break time (perv perv). WORST BIT: The kid who always says'Please Sir, I cannot tell a lie.'

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W I The Hit Squad/ Budget Lucy's the girl's blouse who needs rescuing in Renegade (what's the CRASH Ed doing In there?) (It certainly isn't me, I'm no wimp! — Ed). A vicious gang's kidnapped her and It's up to the black-belted Renegade to punch their lights out. BEST BIT: The rip, mangle and maim fun! WORST BIT: It's a bit sluggish.

O A HEAD OVER HEELS

v l i The Hit Squad/ Budget

In a distant galaxy lie four worlds enslaved by an evil empire, the Emperor ot which resides on the planet Blacktooth (find that man a dentist!). Two spies from the planet Freedom named Head and Heels (weirdt) are sent to the enslaved planets to retrieve the crowns that've been lost.The puzzle element and great graphics mark this as one ot the classic Spectrum games. BEST BIT: The 3-D graphics and the hair-tearing puzzles. WORST BITS: The hair-tearing puzzles!

AQDIZZY COLLECTION

^ C o d e Masters/ Compilation

That egg with the mostest is here for tun, merriment and loads of japes! BEST BIT: The graphics and the fairly frustrating puzzles. WORST BIT: The egg jokes that are always cracked (groan) whenever Dizzy is mentioned.

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The Hit Squad/ Budget

Contains sub-games 'A Fete Worse Than Death' and A Bird In The Hand' with The Penguin and The Joker as the foe. The graphical presentation of this game's fairly unusual; a comic book style ftick screen routine was incorporated, to good effect. BEST BIT: The graphics and the comic book-style presentation. WORST BIT: It's fairly easy to complete.

NIGHT SHIFT

US Gold/Full Price

The Lucastilm " toys are so popular, that industrial Might & Logic have hired a nightwatchman called The Beast. You have to get the set amount of toys off the assembly line belore time's up. Many pairs of eyes are needed when supervising The Beast, and add to that the vicious time limit, this game Is literally hairtearing. BEST BIT: The non-stop mayhem and the detailed graphics. WORST BIT: The fact that you end up in a straitjacket (speak for yoursell Mark — Lucy).

NAVY S.E.A.L.S

Ocean/Full Price

The game concerns a bunch of tough soldiers in Arab territory to retrieve a lorryload of Stinger missiles. BEST BfT: The amount and quality of the action keeps you coming back for more. WORST BIT: The way people keep throwing fish to the men, as they try to do their job.

ELITE

Firebird/ Market Stall TTie classic space trading game. You and your Cobra Mklll battle wagon have to become Elite,' but this is

only achieved If you do vpysufl t N n g i You start the g a n k w i t l i^ting Harmless,' and must work your way up the ranks by trading and blowing the rocket fuel out of vciyifiing you sle. [BEST BIT: There's plenty to do and and the graphics are good | v e n jf's standards. WORST BIT: Working ou^the, ^ keyboard commands.

System 3/ II Price

Oameron is your archetypal evil god. who's turned good gods bad and completely changed history. Face fieresome creatures and stop Dameron. BEST BIT: The atnjospheric graphics in each time z o n e / WORST BIT The final battle with Oameron.

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Software Projects/Market Stall Willy owns a 60-room mansion at which he's jusl held a party. The guests have all left, but the place Is in a terrible state. It's up to myriad strange creatures to tidy up the mess. BEST BIT: The excellent Matthew Smith graphics (whatever happened to him?) WORST BIT: Martha the housekeeper.

GAUNTLET

Klxx/Budget

You control Elf. Barbarian, Wizard or Valkyrie. There are over a hundred rooms waiting to be explored, and many nasty creatures waiting to pounce on you. tt looks good, its very fast and is simply one of the best shoot'em-ups around. BEST BIT: The small but perlectlyformed sprites that bash merry hell out of one another. WORST BIT: The guy In black nicknamed Desmond Death' by Corky!

KWIK SNAX

Code Masters/ Budget

The evil Wizard Zak has eggnapped Dizzy's pais, so he has to save 'em. Dizzy has to negotiate the maze-like screens and avoid the minions sent out by Zak. Dizzy can heft blocks around and squash the meanies. Great fun to play, and even better to look at. Kwik Snax is a definite winner. BEST BIT: The intra screen and the

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WORST BIT: Easy to master: players who want a challenge will soon look elsewhere.

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The story of Doug Ouaid, a secret agent who know s too much. There are four riproaring levels with top notch graphics and gameptay and non-stop action BEST BIT: The ace presentation and the graphics, though the Arnie sprite looks nothing like him. WORST BIT: The game's great, but the video Isn't on sale yet.

MATCH DAY 2

The Hit Squad/ Budget

The normal rules of football apply, with seven players on each team A classic footy sim with amazing sprites and gameptay. BEST BIT: The brill graphics and the nifty footwork by the players â&#x20AC;&#x201D; I'm over the moon, Brian. WORST BIT: Is there one?

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Max Force and Hit Man are the stars of this one or two player blast-em-up that's In a league of its own. Mr Big's the villain and it's up to our hero(es) to reach his HQ, white fighting off his henchmen. With machine gun and grenade launcher in hand. Max and Hit must clean the criminal scum tram the streets. Plenty of good old fashioned blood, guts and violence. BEST BIT: The coin-op quality sprites, despite the fact that they're

cartoon-style, with great attention to detail, and a ram bo v. full ot colours. BEST BIT: and the awful WORST BIT: Youonty get play with.

I C T E E N A G E MUTANT D O H E R O TURTLES Mirrorsoft/Fuli Price

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The turtles must tace the evil Shredder as helji kidnapped April O'Neil and battle the minions of the Foot Clan. Cowabunga dudes, this is one bodacious game. BEST BiT: The large, last-moving sprites. WORST BIT: Ideal for younger players: experienced blasters may find it too easy.

Pang takes you with to 17 locations throughout the worlo, where you Iriust haipeon balloons to save your

'SIM CITY

Mnfogrames/ Full Price

Build your own city. A sum of money and a plot of land are provided. Keeping the citizens happy is your main priority, not easy cos they moan about everything. BEST BIT: The choice ol icons and the vow to make your version ot the M25 work! WORST BIT: Tough to master.

BUBBLE BOBBLE

The Hit Squad/Budget

Bub and Bob are cute little dinosaurs. Originally they were human but the evil Baron von Blubba pul a spell on them. So they have to leap and bounce their way through a

monochrome. WORST BIT: Give me a few days and I might be able to think of one.

BEST BIT: The great twoiifeyer mode, the detailed graphics and Ih* pick-up weapons. WORST BIT: Those '%*!! balloons

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The Hit Squad/ Budget

Tikki and his Kiwi friends are happy at the Auckland Zoo. until a nasty walrus breaks in arid grabs Tikki and Co for supper. Tikki escaped and must search for his chumsiTheraare plenty of nasty creatures after Tikki's hide. But he can use his little bow and arrow. BEST BIT: The weird and wonderful attackers and the tact that you can't put down the |oystick. WORST BIT: When cute likkle Tikki dies.

FANTASY WORLD DIZZY

Code Masters/ Budget

Dizzy must save his kidnapped girifriend Daisy. Either collect all the coins or use the objects in the correct places. BEST BIT: The cute sprites, colourful scenery and excellent sound. WORST BIT: The alligators that bite your botty.

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TREASURE ISLAND DIZZY

Code Masters/ Budget

Our eggy hero is marooned on a deserted Island by Long John Silver. There are two ways to complete the game, either collect all the gold coins scattered around, or find some other way to escape. The graphics are all

hundred levels to reach Blubba in his lair. Bubbles ahoy! BEST BIT: The fun of leaping from p l a f f t n r o platform, ML 1 tune.

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MAGICLAND DIZZY

Dizzy's family have been nobbled by one ol Zak's worst spells, and it's up to our eggy hero to save the day. BEST BIT: I'm fed up saying it's the brain-teasing puzzles and the cartoony graphics, so I won't,

enegaat Lucy has been rescued (she returned to the office 1he Other day, the kidnappers are stilMn hospltatXsee, I told you I was no girl s blouse! — Lucy), but Renegade's brother has been murdered. Mr Big is the villain behind the crime, so Renegade must fight his way through Mr Big's henchmen to gain his revenge. Gameptay Is very much like the original, but Targef Renegade is faster BEST BIT: Beating the living daylights out of the myriad WORST BIT: Some of the adversaries are very tough to beat.

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Code Masters/ Compilation

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RAINBOW ISLANDS

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Robo stomps around eight levels shooting bad guys, collecting Nuke and finally facing RoboCop 2. Both graphically and sonically, the game Is brilliant. BEST BIT: The menacing figure of Robo and the detailed backdrops. WORST BIT: The difficulty level is set a tad too high.

Baron vonBlubbahas kidnapped the inhabitants of the Islands, ant so Bub and Boblpiust stop him. Instead of blowing bubMts as in Bubble Bobble, they now fire rainbows (aahh, how pretty). The fast moving sprites, rainbow-hued backgrounds, catchy tune, and the tact that Lucy likes rainbows make It tha top readers game (and quite right too — E d ) !

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its pursuit and allow John to escape. You then jump onto your Marley Davidson with John on the back, but the T1000 is in hot pursuit in a truck! Recreating a scene from the originti Terminator movie. Arnie starts twiddling with his arm for level three s sliding puzzle, then it's back to the violence. The three game slyles repeat with slight variations for Ihe remaining levels of the game. The beatem-up sections have different backdrops. Amie s bike is swopped for a SWAT van and the puzzle is to repair the big man s eye.

Arnie and his pals are back again ,, y Terminator. One of its own kind. This is where you come in. with a blockbusting game of the smash hit movie. ^ H HASTA LA VISTA, BABY! NICK ROBERTS often gets W m M Vou play Arnie as the T101 mistaken for the Terminator Terminator and have seven levels of when he carries that Oozy 9mm aclton to attempt. Level one sees you around with him (and 'cos of his bulging face to face with the TtOOO. fighting muscles and macho stance, ha ha —Ed) ihe shape-shifting machine fo delay • Plastic surgery doesn't work lor e v e r y o n e . so he got to do the review...! been drunk when he did this one.

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attempt to destroy Ihe leader of the lt's the future, and the rebels when he was at his most ultimate horror has come vulnerable — a child. true. Man and machine no * longer live in perfect harmony. It's The year is 1994 and John Conner war, but despite the machines having is in danger. With a Terminator out awesome power and strength, the for his blood, he doesn't stand a rebels are still winning. The chance on his Own. In a bid to save computer that controls all the their leader from destruction, the machines soon had Ihe solution, rebels have sent a warrior of their sending a Terminator back in lime to own back in time to battle against the • Gosh Arnie, you are just sooo dreamy. Even the T1000 is melting at your feet.

excuse to see Arnie naked —Ed.) • 2 : The Sky net —j defencc machine which started the machine T e R M I f S U S T O R 2 rebellion was devised from the chip in Arnie's arm, which fell off before Sarah Connor wasted him in the first PARADOX CORNER Terminator film. Bui the Skynel machine wouldn't have been invented ii Arnic hadn't erminator II: Judgement Day, the movie, is come back. And he only came back because of absolutely magic — except when you try to the Skynet machine, so it's a circle of work out the logic of the lime travel aspect. After impossibilities. Who devised Arnie's chip in the hours and hours of arguing, we at CRASH first place? Answer: Nobody, therefore it could Towers decided the situation was completely not exist. impossible, there wasn t any logic and Ihe whole scenario s rubbish. Here's why: • 3: Al the end ot Terminator II. all traces of • M l inorganic matter won t go through the time both machines are destroyed, and the world is machine, the two metallic Terminators shouldn i saved from its dreadful fate. If lhat s the case. have arrived intact. (Mind you, it was a good John Connor, who was conceived ol someone

he sent back from Ihe future, should have disappeared as soon as Arme kicks oft. because without the Terminator, there wouldn t have been a machine rebellion and time machine. Therefore, there would've been no way a man from the future could ve sired young John. • 4: The scientist who invented Skynel blew himsell up halfway through the film, along with Arnie s old arm. In which case, Arnie. John Connor and Ihe T1000 should have disappeared because they would never have existed, etc. • 5: A nice girl like Sarah Connor wouldn't sleep with someone Ihe first night so John wouldn't have been conceived — she would have waited until she was married, surely? • Well there y go — there s five impossibilities (well, four and a possibility loo shocking lo contemplate). Anyone who thinks they can work it out and make sense ot the film ought to check themselves into a mental hospital as soon as possible.

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t you missed T2 at the cinema you're a very silly person indeed, it's the best film of 1991. Although not as gory as the original Terminator film, its budget ol $80 million ensures it's packed with eye-popping special effects. I'm sure Ocean haven't spent quite as much money on Terminator 2: Judgment Day. the computer game, but it's very good nonetheless. The sprites are big, bold and very colourful, although as with Total Recall, the Arnie S sprite looks nothing like him (for licensing reasons, I suppose). Don t get me wrong, this is a good game, but I must have a whinge about (he contents ot T2. If I paid a tenner for a game I'd want • 1 J more (or my money than a punch-up (with different backgrounds), a couple of car chases and a ^ d l E ^ f r *e Sliding sliding block block puzzle. puzzle, In in short, short, Terminator Terminator 2: 2: J) • Ater his punch up, the T101 jumps on his bike and rides off into the sunset

Judgment Day is a fast, action-packed game that only just lacks the depth to make H a CRASH Smash.

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• That's a handy screenshot! Better sort out Amie's tendons or he'll go limp wristed.

IT'S NOTHING PERSONAL The graphics in Terminator 2: Judgment Day are absolutely fantastic throughout. Ocean have got some wicked graphic artists working for (hem at Ihe moment and they're making good use of them. Animation on both the T101 and T1000 in the fighting scenes is excellent. The T1000 melts and gloops around the screen very convincingly and there are plenty of list-crunching moves to use against ihe computer-controlled meanie. The game s big downfall is Ihe iBck of variety in (he levels. Repeating three game styles to make up seven levels Is a bit ol a con, really, even though the difficulty's set so high most people will find it difficult to get past level two: I found riding the Harley Davidson through the streets totally impossible. The lips in the inlay say to follow the arrows painted on the road, but everything scrolls by so fast you don't get chance to see any llippin arrows! Ocean have got a really strong line up this Christmas with every game highly polished and

professionally presented. It is going to be hard lor Santa to choose between this, Hudson Hawk, Smash TV, The Simpsons and the rest ot Ihem — they're all So brilliant. Terminator 2: Judgment Day is a great conversion o( the tilm, the repetition in the levels the only fault which I could find, and believe me, t looked hard! Buy il. No problemo.

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England powered through into the Rugby World Cup Final so it's time you lot dragged yourself out and followed in their footsteps for a fast furious game of rugger with Audiogenic's scrum-tious new game. And who better to review it than CRASH'S .j hunk NICK ROBERTS. Guess S w h o wrote the intro too...! (Modesty itself! — Ed) ely, the 48K version some of the features cut out i game in. There are ion replays, a cut-down menu, llm^-mode, the players aren't and you can't customise

i all the formations of the real • bad backs and i y o f l p a c i , Some moves

grounding. The controls are hard to gat used to and different combinations have to be memorised but these soon hacome easy with a little practice Sports simulation* generally aren't very g o o d ' - it'» difficult to capture the excitement of real lite on a computer screen. Audiogenic and Denton Design have done an excellent job (hough and 1 Class Rugby goes a long way 1 towards bringing the spoft stra Into the bedroom. • O^"--

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There haven't been any rugby games on the Spectrum for ages so this came as a welcome change from the

In development many moons ago at Denton Design and It looked good then. Now, with all the flash presentation and sound effects, It's a real smasher. Sports simulations usually divide into two extremes: either the graphics are awful but the game's quite playable, or the graphics and animation are amazing but there's no satisfaction. World Class Rugby has the best of both worlds — great detail and animation in the players, good presentation and highly

* Ooo look i f * an interesting options screen.

require you to use the joysttck In a special way to gain possession of the bail and others are automatically performed by the players. There are scrums, rucks, llneouts, dropouts, penalties, conversions, send offs, substitutions and

A s with the footy World Cup many software houses have jumped on the bandwagon and produced copious amounts of rugby sims in the wake of the recent tournamenl. I'm no great lover of this very manly sport (any wisecracks here Ed and you II be chewing dentures)(would t? — Ed), but it contains most of the leatures of the game. And without the risk of personal injury I might add. there s nothing like a spot of armchair sport for lazy so and so s like me. The £ ^ only slight irritation is the amount of moves etc. that % have to be memorised, but on the whole World Class Rugby is worth the asking price. 'i^^ffijK

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VV 01 a(l the martial arts, the V ancient skill of Tal-CM is the V most difficult to master, a discipline so exacting it takes over a hundred years to learn even the most basic moves. (So no OAP bashing in this game! —Ed). Only the oldest tortoises ot the northern Japanese Islands ever learn the art well enough to become masters. Every year, to preserve the bond of friendship between these fierce fighting tortoises, a huge Tai-Chi Tortoise convention ts held in the shadow of Mount Fuji. Tortoises from all over the world are at this year's meeting to hear stories of the Tal-Chi Tortoises' many adventures. <

There's the tale ot the Infamous budgie kidnappings by the evil parrot

We've had the Samurai Pizza Cats, Battle Toads and of course the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but now the Tai — Chi Tortoise's have joined the ranks of martial art super heroes. MARK CASWEL donned his espadrillas (Ooh, sexy! — Ed} and katana sword and brings a report on the latest battle for truth, justice and the right to shout 'Cowabunga' at an annoyingly loud volui certain objects have to Tiifrttllected and used in their proper place. 8ut to slow you down, various strange creatures roam t h e ' p l a t f o r m s ; few of them will attack you but it you toijch t h e m a small part of your energy level will d i s a p p e a r (lose all energy and you lose 8 life). Also acid batfcs, spikes, crumbling

• Forget the Turtles and Samurai Pizza Cats - this I * Tai-Chi T< fresh out of his cardboard box packed with old newspapers. boss 'Pretty Boy' Hannigan and how a clever thief stealing the Mona Lisa convinced a security guard that it was an over-steed postcard. But probably the most exciting story Is how master villain Vincent Ratatoui tried to half-inch the workf supply of cheese, but was thwarted by the bravery of a TaiJ § j £ ) Chl Tortoise. It s in the guise of one of these daring shelled reptiles lhat you must charge through

Ihe many interconnecting screens picking up the useful objects and avoiding the nasty creatures e n d e v e n nastier traps.

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m t's ages since I played a good ol platforms and ladders style arcade game, t h e graphics are simple but colourtul and there's plenty going on In each location. I know the split screen adventure idea has been used countless times before bul It still works well This is a game thai will appeal to Ihe youngsiers more. The cartoon sprites and jolly ditties throughout will keep them glued to their screens lor yonks. Zeppelin have always been good a l producing fun, high quality gamos and this is ,* certainly one of them. As tor the difficulty, the way Tai-Chi jumps around each screen and Ihe tact some blocks can be stood on and some can ! takes some getting used to. but you soon get the hang ot it. Tat'Chi Tortoise comes as a breath ol fresh air lor me and at £3.99 you can t complain can you?

• A freak accident In a pet shop with a can of radioactive baked beans and Tai-Chi I * allvet platforms etc stand In your path, but tortoise! Ed.) Indeed, as an Vincent Ratatoul must be stopped at exponent ol a martial art, our any cost. So strap a cardboard bo i tortoise pal Is lacking to your back (as a makeshift shell), any offensive kicks or shout some obscure surfing slang punches — when as a battle cry and prepare to beat laced with Bn the heck out of the chcessnep'persl opponent he |ust stands there and takes i t Maybe Tai-Chi i» the 7 a § fit-Cm ^ IWIIUIII ancient Japanese art of a m staring very harS «1 an opponent while standing very sliil. But puzzle freaks will love ft, especially as it's on a budget label.

• Moat tortoises are fast asleep in their cardboard boxes but Tal Chl Is out clubbing.

A colourful a n d very p l a y a b l e g a m e for fans of Hie genre. A n d at budget price too.

SLOW-MO! i sprites and backdrops are all p w e l y detailed and very colourful, and surprisingly there's no colour clash. But my main niggle Is thai there's too much wandering around for very I f l smariie-pants. when have' I ever seen a n fast-moving

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for. The new games consist of two cartoon adventures and one arcade game. Dizzy Down The RapMf has the little fellow in a barrel being tossed from side to side as it careers down ireactwous waierways. You paddle like mad to control the vessel and collect the bonuses that lie around the river. There's also a shoot-'enwp element, where you bop evil trolls aria crocs on the nose with rotten apples!

ARISE, PRINCE DIZZY! The special bonus cartoon adventure Is Dizzy — Prince Ot The Yolktoik. In classic Dizzy style, you bound and spin around Ihe screen solving problems tor the characters you meet. The story goes like this: Dizzy and Daisy were taking a Cherry pie for Grand Dizzy but all they found in their cherry store were the pawprints ol Pogie the Flufflel

pricked her finger started to fall asleep. I ray!' cried Dizzy, what am ilng to do now?" Vou've got to help Dizzy put things back to normal and become Prince Of The Yolkfolk.

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TheUump card in this amazing compilation pack is Spellbound Dizzy, {Vie biggest end best cartoon adventure yet. There are 105 actionpacked scieens to explore and lots of surprises to please fans everywhere. One day, Dizzy was lingering about in the bedroom of hiantste, Theo the Wizard, and found a book of magic spells. Of course, he couldn't let an opportunity like this pass him by so he read a spell out loud. KERWHtZZ! 'Oh boring, he moaned, as It seemed the spell had no effect. Dizzy went home, but what a J surprise he got! All the Yolkfolk had been magically spirited to the underworld.I. How was he going to get them back?

intendo have Mario, Hallowe'en has Michael Myers and CodeMasters have Dizzy. All these characters have inspired sequels, but Ihe one we're interested in is Ihe latter. I may nol have been very enthusiastic about Dizzy games in the past, but deep down I'm very fond of the little egg on legs. Admittedly, Panic Dizzy and Kwik Snax have been reviewed in these pages before, bul the other Ihree games are fresh and lively, and all five are up to Big Red's impeccable standards. The puzzles are frustrating, especially for people who may be playing these games for ihe first time, but * c • believe me. all the answers will be staring you in Ihe • ^ a f ^ r face. Dizzy's Excellent Adventures is a most triumphant Tjj game, especially at the price.

CodeMasiers just wouldn t let it lie. And why should they when they ve got such a popular character as Dizzy? Even that top light entertainer Vic Reeves has got in on the act with his No 1 hit single of the same name! It all came about a bit like this... VIC: "What can I do lor me next single. Bob?' said Vic one morning. BOB: "Hold on a minute. Vic. I'm playing an ace game called Dizzy on my Spectrum", Bob replied, in his usual jolly manner."There's nothing I like better than balancing a ripe banana on top ol the screen while playing Dizzy." ^ ^ . VIC: That sounds like a good name lor a song, don I you think? Put some twiddly music in the background and it would be a hit." wf"' BOB: Aye, it would thai. Do you know the cheat mode for the game. Vic?" VIC: "Try picking up the piece ot bacon on that troll s table. Bob. It's slightly rippled with crispy underside." BOB: Oh, thanks. Vic!"

EGGCEI Every Dizzy sequel up till now has been exactly the same technically; only the stories and locations have changed. Big Red Software have gone for the jackpot with Spellbound. There are lots of new animation frames for Dizzy as he eats, swims, falls and

With 105 • screens, SpeHbound Dizzy JjLl is bigger than bolh Dizzy 3 and 4 put together! The puzzles are a little harder than the last game: it took me ages to work out how lo get the mine cart going, * ™; but things never got so frustrating I wanted lo switch • in a freak c a r e e r m o v e , Corky signs a deal to off. appear in Dizzy — Prince Of T h e Yolk Folk. I Being a hardcore Dizzy tan myself, I | absolutely love Sfwiit>oi»na, and the I whole pack, for that matter. At £10.99, you're getting amazing value for money. Megacartoon adventure action all the way!

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holds his breath. To make the locations a mile mofoftiteresting, the programmers have used attractive effects such as rain, bees and a runaway mine cart!

Phllleas Fogg S is a strange J" i ltttlegame.lt seems this wise man (complete with handlebar moustache) was on one of his trips around the world when he volunteered for a dangerous and daring mission. Set In the war fields of 1871, Fogg controls his special hydrogen balloon complete with High Pressure Thrust (oo-er) and splatters the enemy with the bombs he's carrying. Moving around the landscape Is bleedm hard work, as the wind Wows you wherever it (eels

like and floating too low over enemies may result in the balloon being popped and the gas igniting — BOOM!!! You take off by dropping sandbags over the side of the basket to make the balloon lighter. The more sandbags or bombs dropped the easier the balloon Is to control. There are four levels ot altitude and getting the correct one (or your area is a t With a name like Philleas Fogg wouldn't you go must. The around the world to escape the rldicuie of your mates!

troopers roaming around blast you at level two, cannons get you at level three, hills are tough to cross and mountains can't be passed at all. Towns, rocks, lakes and shacks are also dotted around the levels and all affect the balloon. There's also the odd friendly shack, identified by a flag, and landing near one of these will increase your hydrogen, bomb and sandbag levels. Balloon Battles is extremely annoying at first. You have to read the instructions over and over before you reaslise what you're supposed to be doing! Once you've got the hang of the game It's quite fun. though. Zeppelin have always been one lor the more obscure titles and this is one of them — great fun to play.

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It's 1999 and the nation's favourite gameshow is the Running Man-style Smash TV, a violent blend of the movie Rollerball and The Price Is Right. Basically, screw this game up and you're dead meat (but that's got to be preferable to a Paul Daniels show!). With glittery suit and rotating bow tie firmly in place, MARK CASWELL becomes the MC for an evening's carnage. IrS SHOWTIME!

studio with exits at the four main points of the compass. Empty, that Is, until the savage denizens of the game appear and try to shorten your life expeciancy by a good few years. They burst out any of the four exits and, in true Robotron style, stick the boot in (very hard). They include psychopathic droids, baseball bat-wielding maniacs, tanks, rolling balls (no comment) and white tadpoles (supposedly poisonous snakes).

People sure have weird tastes In the year 1999, getting their kicks by watching the most popular gameshow on TV — the sensational and ultra-violent Sn-ash TV. Based on the highly successful Williams coin-op, you play a contestant who risks lite and limb in three nightmarish game rones. Armed with a low-powered gun, you enter the hazardous world ot the TV studio, and so the fight ot your life begins. Smash TV starts In an empty • Choor! Bob Monkeyhouse never looked so good did he? (I thought he looked quite smart in the $ 6 4 , 0 0 0 doller question - Ed)

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As you battle through the maze ot single-screen studio sets, there are plenty of bonuses to pick up, which divide into two types: weapons and prizes. Weapons include grenades, rocket launchers, spinning shurikens and mace balls, and believe me, they're vital to survival on later levels. Prizes are cash and gold, or luxury Items such as cars, holidays, washing machines and so on (cuddly toy?). But collecting ob|ects Isn't the main point of the game; you're there to kick arse (pardon my French) and get out In one piece (two at the most). Of course, hits to your trail body mount up, and getting whacked over the bonce once too often means you'll be playing your little golden

review 6" Probe Software are the guys responsible tor the Speccy version of Smash TV. or more precisely, two programmer types named Dave Perry and Nick Bruty. Between them they've programmed many of the games you ve undoubtedly purchased over the past lew years. These include Savage. Dan Dare III. Extreme and Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles (plus loadsa stuff lor other computers). T u I The Spectrum version ot Smash „ TV is a very close conversion of the W i l l i a m s coin-op, ( W i l l i a m s are i h e m s e l v e s very ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ prolific with Defender, Narc, Joust ^ ^ ^ and Trog in their a r c a d e repertoire). Ot course, due to the memory limitations the Spectrum (the old story), a the coin-op s features had to be left out. But Messrs Bruty and Perry have managed amazingly well The good news lor 46K owners is that Smash TV works on their £ B ^ E a E S n computer (hurrah!!). Smash TV is 'fl THE gameshow ol the 90s, and fun ? ' for all the family.

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THE GAME The arcade version of Smash TV is among my all-time top five awesome games. When someone (I forget who) told me Ocean were converting this to the Speccy, I thought 'no way', but it seems I have to eat my words, (watch that diet. Corky —Ed). Probe had a hand in the programming of this product, which just oozes quality. The sprites are little short of amazing. They're bold, colourful and they don't half shift! On my first few games I had a tough time keeping track of the enemy forces as they sped around the screen. But despite early leelingsof

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to come back playable yod tor just one more go. The arcade version Is vary violent, sporling several types of gory death for Intrepid heroes. Sadly, these have been cut from the computer version (Corky, you're a sicko! —Ed), but death is still only just around the comer for the foolhardy player. As far as I'm concerned, Smash TV Is one ot the best games to have appeared this year, and so it deserves one ot the highest marks that I've ever awarded a game. Well done, Ocean. •

Rating • Things are looking tough, it looks like it could be t i m e to g e t your m a p s out for t h e lads and find out w h e r e you are. trouser time, methlnks). He's huge, mean and the only thing that stands between you and continued good health. Personally, I'd prefer to be a contestant on The Generation Game — at least Bruce Forsyth doesn't brandish a huge gun (he leaves the strong-arm stuff to the bint with the short skirts).

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W W burglar, who after a stretch in the slammer is determined to go straight. But a gang of crooks have different ideas. They've kidnapped The Hawk's best pal and unless he half-inches three very valuable Da Vinci artefacts tor them, Hudson's friend is going to be very brown bread. He reluctantly agrees to help, but soon finds there's more to the situation than meets the eye. The criminals are secretly working on a scheme called 'The Alchemy Project' — a machine that produces gold. But they need the three artefacts to complete it, and once they've got It running, they plan to rule the world through economic leverage. It's up to you as Hudson Hawk to steal the artefacts, but to use them as a bargaining point to secure your friend's release. There are three levels to the game (three levels, three artefacts — simple, eh?). The first sends you to Rutherford's Auction

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Hudson H a w k on his way to c a t burglar heaven. He's had enough of stealing moggies. But a t least he's going to heaven! It could have been the other way! House to retrieve Leonardo Da Vinci's horse sculpture — Ihe 'Sforza' (excuse me while I push my teeth back into place). The Hawk starts the game on the roof ot the building adjoining the auction house. His first task is to perform a little rooftop hopping before entering Ihe building via an open window. But life isn't that simple because as a tea

leal Hudson isn't at all welcome. At the bottom of the screen is a large green bar (you can't miss it), which Is your energy indicator. Contact with the guard dogs, security guards, various automated security devices and birds that crap on you knock this down. • Being viciously a t t a c k e d by a Rotweiller inthe opening scenes!

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8ul you're not defenceless, you've got a supply of baseballs to lob at attackers (replacements can be found scattered around). If all else tails, you can punch your assailant's lights out. Once inside the building, Hudson finds himself on a staircase with five floors below him (numbered 11-7), a door leading

he Hudson Hawk film got a right royal slating by the critics but this game leatures some ot the best sprite animation I've ever seen. The first time that rottweiler grabbed me by the panls and threw me off Ihe roof I nearly died laughing! The gameplay is exciting and original, and while not being instantly addictive, it certainly grows on you. One gripe comes to mind, though. The sprite masking is occasionally a little wonky — Bruce Willis can hang onto the edge ot a platform by his toenails, ^ making the game look a little dated in places. Ocean have certainly latched onto a sense of the ridiculous in this tongue-in-cheek game — I mean, fancy throwing tennis HEAOELF balls at pigeons who deplete your energy by crapping v ^ W M j S ^ f J on you — very silly! All In all, though, Hudson Hawk - V y ^ S R J V i j f ' is a challenging game that oozes character. A worthy V S W ' J B ® CRASH Smash that will keep you occupied for ages. W

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• Didn't your mum ever tell you not to bounce on the seats? What rotten behaviour. No wonder he grew up into a little tea leaf! into each. Your aim's to reach Ihe and thus putting an end lo the sate on the seventh floor, but you Alchemy Project. 01 course, there have to explore the other rooms (in are plenty of rulfians out to dull order] first. you over, bul the life of your friend and the fate ot the world rests in Each level is split into several your hands. parts and in level one you search rooms, dodge security alarms guards laser guns and even IT S A FAIR COP, crawl through air vents (very Die Hardish). With luck, you can then GUV snaffle the Sforza and it's on to level two, where the wanted object Even if the movie version is a is the Codex', Mr Da Vinci's turkey, it certainly doesn't reflect personal sketchbook. This is on on the game, which Is an arcade show in the halls of the Vatican, so puzzle fan's dream come true. The along with the usual security lirst section throws several brain measures you have to face some teasers at you. including how to very unfriendly nuns (the mind cross from one rooftop to the boggles —Ed). other and how to enter a high window. If you manage lo escape from Jean-Paul's residence you still Although every problem has its have to find the third and final solution, some take some finding. object, safely housed In Leonardo One ol your biggest headaches is Da Vinci's castle. The Mirrored sneaking past the security beams Crystal' is the only thing capable in the walls and the pressure of destroying the Gold Machine, pads set in the floor, • Hey Bruno, why don't you use the lift rather than your backside?

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10 WAYS TO RECOGNISE A CAT BURGLAR • 1 They all wear silly stripey shirts, flat caps and masks that only cover their eyes. • 2 They carry huge sacks with SWAG stencilled on Ihem. • 3 H you see a suspicious character carrying a domestic feline, that's your man. • 4 They have silly names like Fingers', 'Sid' and Nobby'. • 5 They run around a tot. usually with a policeman right behind them. • 6 They constantly lose their door keys, that's why you see them climbing up drainpipes In the middle of the night. • 7 They nick anything that isn't bolted down. • 8 If they see a policeman, they can't help saying things like "It's a lair cop, guv" or "You'll never take me alive, copper!" • 9 If they want to know the time, they never ask a policeman. • 10 They never watch Police 5 or Crtmewatch UK.

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MUDDLED MOLECULES Because an atom won't stop unless something's In its path, it's very difficult to get the molecules together at first. Completing the early levels is usually a matter of muddling through until you get It right. Luckily, you cton't have to memorise how the molecule goes together — there's an info option that brings up the finished look at the touch of a button. Hexagonia would be too frustrating if you had to work your way through each level every time you wanted to play, so the •

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to see wtial level 50 Is like — I'm stuck on level three!

FRUSTRATING FUN This is the type of game that will have you totally frustrated and puzzled from time to time, but when you've cracked a screen you'll feel you've accomplished a great task. The only commercial puzzle games to appear on the SAM before were the Mind Games series which had some great ideas but weren't presented very well. Hexagonia knocks them for six with some toetapping music, sound effects and attractive presentation. If you fancy a game that you won't be able to complete In a hurry, this is It! • 0 0 %

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review Yes, the most excellent nlnja heroes are back yet again to save the beautiful April O'Nell and Master Splinter from the clutches of despicable Shredder and his Foot Clan. There are ten levels In the game and one or two human players can compete, selecting one of the four lovable amphibious reptiles. Set in The Big Apple, the game kicks off In a flaming corridor. Not the best place to be, especially with hooded Foot thugs attacking from all sides. Each turtle carries his own weapon — bo stick, katana sword, nunchukus and sal — and hBs his own strengths and weaknesses. Each player has an energy bar that drops alarmingly as they're bashed by a thug or obstacle. Lives are limited, so wallop first and ask questions later. The fire's still raging on level two (call Blue Watch, someone!), and

Could anybody forget the indelible um... wait a minute, it'll come to _ me... Ah yes, Thirties! Just in case you have, tfiere's a shiny new computer game featuring the fab foursome, a conversion of the coin-op which battled its way into the arcades a while back. MARK CASWELL shouts *Cowabunga dudes!' as he becomes an honorary turtle for the day...

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• Looks like April a n d Donatello a r e having b a c o n pizza for tea! Lucky blighters! with the attacking Foot Clan members Is Rock Steady (Shredder's right-hand creature). Level three leaves the burning building behind (thank goodness) and hits the streets ol New York (although It retaliates with a roundhouse kick). Here the Foot Clan are better armed — especially the ones who leap out of

manholes and whang the lids at you (bags of ouch!).

MOST AWESOME' Bee Bop (another Shredder thug) makes an appearance, and good news for the amphibious dudes — there's pizza power-up up tor grabs. You'll need them tor your clashes with the Foot In

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t h o u g h t i h e s e T u r t l e s h a d d i s a p p e a r e d ; I h e y n o l o n g e r appear constantly on kids' TV and those horrible slippers have disappeared from the local shops (they look lovely on you. Nick —Ed). The first game was graphically excellent. The only trouble was I completed il first go! This game is a little harder but the graphic quality has been dropped, with monochrome throughout The sprites and backgrounds are well drawn and animated, with plenty going on in every section o l Ihe game. The coin-op was a lavish altair. with controls lor four players and a t1 m e g a s c r e e n . Of c o u r s e , s o m e t h i n g s h a v e l o be sacrificed to squeeze the game into a home computer ..: H 9 — y o u re o n l y a l l o w e d t w o p l a y e r s b u t all t h e , t-y, payability ot the arcade machine is inlacl.Turtles 2 — t n ^ r The Coin Op is a faithful conversion of a great beatem-up arcade game. Check it out now... dudes.

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